Moss v. State

The amended motion for new trial assigns error on the court’s failure to sustain an objection of the defend*670ant’s counsel to the solicitor’s reading to the court in the presence of the jury an excerpt from the case of Davis v. State, 46 Ga. App. 732 (169 S. E. 203), quoting from Dorsey v. State, 108 Ga. 477 (34 S. E. 135) as follows: “What was the defendant’s purpose? To rob, frighten, have carnal knowledge of the girl—or what was his desire? Did not the jury have the right to say, under all the facts and circumstances deducible from the evidence, that he intended to have carnal knowledge of…